- Windows 11 test versions play Windows Vista starting sound
- A Microsoft Exec confirmed that this is a bug in these glimpse
- This seems a surprising coincidence, since Microsoft recently had the Apple liquid glass to look like Windows Vista
In one of the strangest developments with Windows 11 for some time, the operating system test versions have been temporarily struck by a bug that changed the starting sound.
This is the soundbitus played when the office appears for the first time, and instead of the usual house of Windows 11, the testers of beta and development channels started their PCs to hear the noise of Windows Vista (and Windows 7) instead.
These four nostalgic notes will immediately transport anyone who had a PC with the operating systems to return at that time in the history of computer science, and undoubtedly immediately confused a whole bunch of testers.
There seems to be a bug where the Windows Vista / 7 start -up sound is used in the latest beta channels and Windows 11 developmentJune 13, 2025
Why did it happen? Xeno, the Windows tester who reported this as a bug on X (see the post above spotted by Tom equipment), received confirmation from Brandon Leblanc de Microsoft, senior product manager for Windows of the company, that this is a problem.
But not before Leblanc jokes: “I entered and had fun with the sound files in Windows and people needed an explosion from the past 😉 You said how much you love Vista.”
When someone replied to say that he could no longer say whether Leblanc joked or not, Microsoft’s executive said that it is indeed a real bug that causes Windows Vista starting sound.
Analysis: Clippy conundrum
How can a bug like this slip? This certainly cannot, although I suppose that what Leblanc means is that someone played with the sound of startup for pleasure, and accidentally implemented the change for the Windows 11 testers, when they did not want it.
Probably, in any case, although this may be the case that the old characteristics of the long-term Windows operating systems can indeed manifest itself at random in Windows 11. In this case, the testers, search for clippy which appears accidentally later this year. Or the icons on the desktop suddenly come back to their appearance in Windows 3.1, perhaps. Who knows where the dizzying ride of nostalgic glitting could lead us next?
AHEM. Or everything is the language and the play, despite Leblanc by playing it straight on X, and the fact that the bug was added as a problem known for the construction of the development chain, with Microsoft saying that it “works on a fix”.
Of course, all of this seems too important that Microsoft has just made fun of the big fanfare and the agitation with which Apple presented its liquid glass interface for MacOS Tahoe 26 (and other large platforms), when it recalls the aerodynamic effect of Windows Vista.
Thus, the sound of the Vista startup accidentally making its appearance here to strengthen this little umbrage launch is, we say, an interesting coincidence. I mean Bug. Yeah – definitely an interesting bug.
